After evacuating twice over tainted water, Neskantaga residents plan their return home
Posted: Dec 17, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020 A sign pleading for help in Neskantaga First Nation.(Olivia Stefanovich/CBC) Members of a First Nation that has been under a boil-water advisory for longer than any other in Canada are hoping to return home before Christmas to clean running water for the first time in 25 years. Neskantaga, accessible only by air and an ice road in winter, sits about 450 km north of Thunder Bay, Ont. — where nearly 300 of its members have been living in a hotel since an oily sheen in the reserve's reservoir on Oct. 19 triggered their evacuati...
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